ABCs of ArchiCAD (Obscure Version)

Stealing some inspiration from this great video on the ABCs of Architecture, I decided to do a quick list** of the ABCs of ArchiCAD. But instead of going with the obvious (B is for Beam, D is for Door, and W is for Wall), I searched out some obscure aspects of ArchiCAD. Hopefully a few will spark your interest and make you want to learn more. I know creating this list has given me a lot of great ideas for more in depth blog posts. Oh and I am fully confident you’ve never heard of Yellow Patch before. Though since I started this list, I’ve used it to explain why someone was having an issue with their model. Check it out. Enjoy!

Hello you guys, I’m new here so sorry for stupid questions. I’m also just working with Archicad for 8 months, so I’m don’t know everything yet. The question. I have also problem with Archicad running very slow in 2D. I’m using Archicad 15 an a brand new iMac with the best specs, so there should be no problems with speed. Yet there is. For the project I’m working on I’ve drawn a pretty big area, about 8 square km. This so i can make nice bird view renders. In the beginning the project was not slow at all, and almost anything was ready. Later on I probably made a change somewhere or somehow. Now I can’t zoom in anywhere on the project because it gets really slow and sometimes Archicad even quits working. When I was drawing I maybe changed the zoom or drawing options in the quick menu to 1:1. I read something about this on http://www.archicadwiki.com/2dSpeed. But I’m not sure if this is making my drawing slow because I’ve no idea how I could change or check it. So please, anyone help me out. For the moment I fixed it with making the building in an other drawing and pasted it in the situation as a hotline. But later on I need to make some changes in the slow working project.

Mattie, it sounds like there’s something in the file that’s causing the slow down. Perhaps bad geometry or an error in a 3D object. How big is the file? 8 km2 seems like it could be pretty big. Is the site all 3D or just 2D? A lot of 2D can really slow down a file because of redraw times.